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New Programs Last Week

Listed in increasing order of listener rating.

• Ramesh Jain – Experiential Computing (2.3) Most applications on the web today remain in thrall to the legacy of the written word: There remains a sense that everything on the web is really a document. Ramesh Jain believes that the new emphasis on ‘where’ is a first step to a radical change in perception which will lead to events becoming the most important aspect of what he calls Computing 3.0.
• David Gee (3.0) On Biotech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. David Gee, Commercial Director, MNL Pharma, Ltd., about how simple sugars might yield a therapeutic effect in the fight against everything from diabetes to cancer.
• Flame, Blame, Shame – BlogHer 2005 (3.0) Blogs are conversations, and like all discussions, sometimes the talk gets ugly. This panel discussion brings together mobile technology blogger mobile jones, computer science professor Ellen Spertus and journalist, novelist and blogger Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez with moderator Liza Sabater to discuss flames and how to deal with them.
• Peter Boatwright (3.1) Moira Gunn also interviews Peter Boatwright, professor, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and the author of "The Design of Things to Come — How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products."
• Paula Le Dieu – Emerging Massive Media (3.3) The broadcasting media are competing with their audiences for attention. Every user is a potential broadcaster and content creator. Users are no longer watching content passively but are actively reusing and remixing content to fulfill their creative endeavors. Paula Le Dieu speaks on how the BBC is digitizing and making its archived content available online so that users can reuse, remix and share it under the creative commons license.
• Jonathan Schwartz at OSCON 2005 (3.4) Sun Microsystems’ COO Jonathan Schwartz is no stranger to controversy. At OSCON2005 we hear him answer some tough questions. Pulling no punches, he speaks about the value of free software being the answer to future and safe innovation and evolution.
• Ann Winblad and Laura Merling (3.5) Mora also speaks with Ann Winblad, co-founding partner of Hummer-Winblad Venture Partners and Laura Merling, CEO of SDForum. They discuss the global reality of both funding new software and then building it. Is it surprising? All roads lead to Silicon Valley.
• Tara Lemmey – National Security in the Information Age (3.7) In the post-9/11 world, security is a hot topic, and there’s no doubt that information technology has a significant role to play in security today. But exactly how does IT fit into security and how do we temper the need for security with the preservation of personal privacy? Tara Lemmey of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age discusses how a group of top analysts imagine what security in the information age could look like.
• Brian Capouch – Asterisk Open-Source VoIP PBX (4.1) Asterisk is the open source Voice-over-IP solution that everyone’s talking about, and at OSCON Scott Mace talked to Brian Capouch, the author of the forthcoming Addison-Wesley book about Asterisk. Capouch discusses why Asterisk is spreading like wildfire, has hooks for video and presence extensions and why Skype is "evil incarnate."

The O’Reilly Pick of the Week:

This week’s IT Conversations/O’Reilly Pick of the Week is a great program from our archives:

• Alistair Cockburn – Agile Software Development (3.8) This week’s pick is from last year: In 2001 Alistair and 16 other software- development heavyweights met to discuss lightweight methodologies, resulting in the Agile Software Development Manifesto. In this interview with Doug Kaye, Alistair explains how he uses games as a model for software projects, and how he discovered that "software engineering" was created on a whim. He also discusses the American and European aversion to copying: the not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome.